أَشُدُّI press in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَإِنْ كُنْتُ لَأَشُدُّ الْحَجَرَ عَلَى بَطْنِي مِنَ الْجُوعِ،

  And if I were to press a stone against my belly from hunger,

  لَأَشُدُّ — I would press. The verb wears a prefixed emphatic 'la-' that intensifies it and answers the conditional 'if', yielding a forceful 'would truly press'. The 'I' subject is inside the verb, no separate pronoun. The doubled middle consonant marks this as a verb whose root repeats its last letter, pressed together in pronunciation.

  From: Generosity to the Poor →